Business March 17, 2021 LAHORE: Pakistan is paying an unbearable price for the seemingly minor policy flaws impeding the competitiveness of businesses and unduly burdening the consumers. Starting with port handling to the unfair duties on local poultry and strangulating procedures to approve seed varieties the businessmen are at the receiving end and the beneficiaries are those operating from outside Pakistan. Take for instance the case of poultry where Pakistan has permitted some countries under free trade agreement duty free access on processed poultry. Poultry is providing livelihood to millions of workers in Pakistan. The country is self-sufficient in poultry meat. In recent years numerous state of art poultry processing plants have been established. All of these units are operating at much below their installed capacity. Few importers have introduced their processed poultry product brands by repacking imported processed poultry.